A spacecraft has delivered fantastic images of Mars, showcasing textured terrain and a lone crater near the planet’s most famous landmark. Olympus Mons is the Solar System’s largest volcano. It’s so ...

Lava flows on Olympus Mons volcano probably melted ice in the ground, making the volcano flank unstable. Rockfalls and landslides moved hundreds of kilometres into the surrounding landscape, forming a ...

The reason our brains have that wrinkly, walnut shape may be that the rapid growth of the brain's outer brain the gray matter is constrained by the white matter, a new study shows. Researchers found ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting consequence of packing an unusually large brain into a too-small skull. But ...

The MRI scans of nine participants in the study, all children, adolescents and young adults, show how varied the tertiary sulci (color patches) are among individuals. The patches are identified sulci ...

Figure 1: Physical mimic and numerical simulation of tangential cortical expansion. All together, by combining physical experiments and numerical simulations originating with initially smooth 3D fetal ...